Posted on 02/10/2024 9:51:32 AM PST by CFW
Michigan officials are calling upon state lawmakers to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan.
Since December 2023, Michigan state officials — including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice — have criticized homeschooling and called for stricter government regulation and oversight over homeschooled students and their parents.
The motivation for these attacks was the arrest in December of two couples in Clinton County for “allegedly abusing and financially profiting from foster and adopted children.”
However, instead of focusing on the crime itself — or on the high levels of abuse in government schools — these officials are broadly attacking homeschooling and parents seeking alternatives to government schools. For example, Attorney General Nessel alleged that homeschooling had contributed to the couples’ actions.
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Hell NO!
It is actions like this that have made me decide it is time to end government controlled compulsory schooling. If a local government wants to provide schools attendance should be voluntary and contractual with parents being involved with every aspect from school hours to curriculum.
It is getting harder and harder to claim the current government controlled model of schooling is a public good.
The people of Michigan recently had a chance to change their government. They chose not to.
“Chose” like 2020 right…
Democrat Kiddie Rapers want access to the chiddrens.
I guess al public school teachers should be registered as potential sex offenders by as Michigan,s logic. Much more of that happening in their public schools
Just like with guns, they want to know how many and WHERE to go to TAKE them.
Where is that Hitler meme?
Homeschooled families should get their tax money back so they can use those funds for actual schooling instead of funding the high priced babysitting pre-prisons it is going to now.
Probably because Hillsdale has a popular homeschooling curriculum.
The next step would probably be to require home-schooled students to incorporate trans-GIBLET and DEI agendas into their school lessons.
As a parent who homeschooled for 25 years and still know thousands of homeschoolers, your observations are exactly wrong.
No parent who subjects their children to public schools loves them.
As is easily observable, (see Baltimore schools with zero kids proficient in math and reading) the system is guaranteed to fail most kids.
Of course there are loser homeschoolers but they are complete outliers.
to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan.
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Now, cross reference that ‘registry’ with gun owners ‘registry’.
EEK EEK
Log on GPS coordinates —> launching SWAT, NOW!
There are no limits to tyranny...
Vote for communists, expect draconian communist rules...
That may be the case where you are, but you are incorrect if you assume that it is the same elsewhere. I live in a rural area of Texas where-aside from small-scale farming/ranching the main industry is tourism-particularly in Winter when snowbirds come to live here in the RV parks and cabins on/near the river from late Oct to early April or so. There are many people who live an off-grid self sufficient lifestyle by choice-. there are also lots of homeschoolers, and those numbers increase every year, as the area schools’ enrollment decreases. There is also a small local Christian school with very reasonable tuition out here-they have added another new building due to increased enrollment this last year. Public school is a last resort for most parents here...
Many parents take their kids to their home-based businesses for the workday-the kids do their schoolwork in the back office while mom or dad does their job as a mechanic, a shopkeeper, etc. There are more college educated people here than not-most of us moved here to get out of the corporate rat race-gone Galt. The homeschooled kids do much better academically, too. They either join the military, go off to college or join the parents’ business. Almost none of them get into drugs, etc, unlike the public schooled kids do, probably because they are not encouraged to interact with kids from the nearby large city.
Obviously your area and state are not like red state Texas. If I still had a cub at home, I wouldn’t want a public school teacher within a mile of them..
Thank you-I totally agree with you...
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